Company Introduction

MSC employs over 1100 people in the manufacture and support of its analytical equipment. Its products are in use in more than 70 countries - supporting research, development, and quality assurance activities. MSC continuously promotes partnerships, dialog, and innovation within the global scientific and industrial community. More than just a distributor, MSC designs and manufactures many peripherals to enhance the performance of MSC generators, detectors and goniometers. Examples of MSC products include X-ray optical systems, cryogenic devices, an Xe derivative device, as well as single and multiple taper CCD detectors. In addition, MSC has a strong scientific development program for data acquisition, processing and structure solution software as well as a core-tool software development group that develops instrumentation software in conjunction with the whole MSC Group. Finally, MSC offers contract research services for small and macromolecular crystallography. The ability to provide research services has a synergistic effect with the development of new products in that new ideas for software and hardware are constantly generated and tested in the same application laboratory. Headquartered in The Woodlands, TX USA, MSC is housed in a new 40,000 sq. Ft. Custom-designed building. This facility contains a large and fully equipped application laboratory, customer service facility, engineering and manufacturing facility as well as housing sales, marketing, financial and crystallographic R&D groups. European operations are managed from the MSC Europe branch office located outside of London, while MSC's core-tool software development group is located in Provo, Utah, USA.